Before Rackspace took over the space about a decade ago, it was an empty mall. Windsor Park Mall opened in the late 1970s with major retailers like Dillard’s anchoring the shops, the Express-News previously reported. But it started losing tenants, and its last major retail tenant Mervyn’s moved out in 2005, the Express-News reported in 2007.

When Rackspace was growing in 2007, executives were reportedly trying to decide whether to move its headquarters into the mall or to another state.

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Other states were actively recruiting Rackspace, said then-Chief Executive Officer Lanham Napier.

“I don’t think it’s a situation where we want to move the whole company out,” Napier said at the time. “But for the next 1,000 Rackers, we’ve got to decide, are they going to be in San Antonio or are they going to be somewhere else?”